10:47 No, the US could not afford to not intervene. Selling weapons and supplies was mostly done through loans. But if Germany would have won, then there would have been anybody left to pay off these loans anymore, right?
It absolutely does not take a certain type of person to fight in a war. Most people in all modern wars were conscripted into the army without having any choice of refusing. When being forced to fight, you do just that. These people were no different from most of us nowadays, they had dreams, they had ambitions and they had hope, just for their own government to come and demand they die for their country.
One quick thing, just noticed the thumbnail says "60k dead in 1 day", and I assume that is about the Battle of the Somme. But that is a very very common thing that people get wrong...at the Somme the British Army suffered 60k casualties in 1 day...but casualties does not equal deaths. A casualty could be someone who died, but it could also be a person who was wounded, injured, got sick, or was captured...in reality a bit less than 1/3 of the casualties the British suffered on day 1 of the Battle of the Somme were men who were killed.
You were not taught anything about Australia mostly because there was not room in the curriculum for much World History...you were also only taught the barebones of US history. The only way you would have been taught about Australia would be if you were doing advanced placement work in World History, or something like that. As for the "rules of warfare", you are absolutely correct that in the final extreme, there are no rules in total war. But there was something to be said for the efforts to set some boundaries for what is acceptable in warfare, and what actions are considered war crimes or even crimes against humanity. Granted, we have fought two World Wars and dozens and dozens of smaller ones, and we still cannot all agree...but at least there is a pretty broad agreement on a wide range of actions we consider prosecutable. And the US should have gotten into the war in 1915 after the Lusitania, but we had the wrong President in office...oh my, the what ifs of the election of 1912 are just so delicious. Definitely check out more Oversimplified...probably the 2 part series they did on Bitchler would be best next, but the series for WW2 is good too.
I understand that "Germany surrender" then as he spoke I had to replay a few times to hear what video said (I said he as mind went blank just as started to type this if the reactors name
You'll have to do Oversimplified WW2 next, part1 & part2 👍
10:47 No, the US could not afford to not intervene. Selling weapons and supplies was mostly done through loans. But if Germany would have won, then there would have been anybody left to pay off these loans anymore, right?
It absolutely does not take a certain type of person to fight in a war. Most people in all modern wars were conscripted into the army without having any choice of refusing. When being forced to fight, you do just that. These people were no different from most of us nowadays, they had dreams, they had ambitions and they had hope, just for their own government to come and demand they die for their country.
One quick thing, just noticed the thumbnail says "60k dead in 1 day", and I assume that is about the Battle of the Somme. But that is a very very common thing that people get wrong...at the Somme the British Army suffered 60k casualties in 1 day...but casualties does not equal deaths. A casualty could be someone who died, but it could also be a person who was wounded, injured, got sick, or was captured...in reality a bit less than 1/3 of the casualties the British suffered on day 1 of the Battle of the Somme were men who were killed.
Nice. More oversimplified please
WW2 oversimplified next!
Now you have to do WW2 too Dude.
But please check the sound next time, video was to silent.
You were not taught anything about Australia mostly because there was not room in the curriculum for much World History...you were also only taught the barebones of US history. The only way you would have been taught about Australia would be if you were doing advanced placement work in World History, or something like that.
As for the "rules of warfare", you are absolutely correct that in the final extreme, there are no rules in total war. But there was something to be said for the efforts to set some boundaries for what is acceptable in warfare, and what actions are considered war crimes or even crimes against humanity. Granted, we have fought two World Wars and dozens and dozens of smaller ones, and we still cannot all agree...but at least there is a pretty broad agreement on a wide range of actions we consider prosecutable.
And the US should have gotten into the war in 1915 after the Lusitania, but we had the wrong President in office...oh my, the what ifs of the election of 1912 are just so delicious.
Definitely check out more Oversimplified...probably the 2 part series they did on Bitchler would be best next, but the series for WW2 is good too.
1:10 blame US History education (Propaganda) 🤔
l cant hear the video 😌
I understand that "Germany surrender" then as he spoke I had to replay a few times to hear what video said (I said he as mind went blank just as started to type this if the reactors name
America hardly did anything